Cloth-measuring machine



0. W. DODSON. Cloth-Measuring Machine. No. 223,716.

Patented Jan, 20, 1880 WITNESSES 02% ATTORNEYS.

- MPETERS, PHDTOLHNOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON a O ORSON W. DODSON, OF HENDERSON, TEXAS.

T I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLOTH-MEASURING MACHIN E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,716, dated January 20, 1880.

Application filed October 9, 1879. i

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORSON WEBSTER Don- SON, of Henderson, in the county of Rusk and State of Texas, have invented a new Improvement in Bagging-Reels, of which the followin g is a specification.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the baggingreel. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of the measuring cylinder. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the crank-spindle.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish bagging-reels, so constructed that the bagging can be conveniently unwound from the roll,"

measured automatically, and again wound into a roll.

The nature of the invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as hereinafter shown and described.

A represents the frame of the machine. In the outer side of the lower part of the forward posts of the frame A are formed inclined slots B, to serve as bearings for the rod 0, which is designed to be passed through the center of the roll D of bagging, to support it and allow it to revolve freely while the desired quantity of bagging is being unrolled from it. As the bagging is unrolled from the roll D it is Wound upon the spindle E, which revolves in slotsin the upper rear part of the frame A.

The spindle E is provided with recesses F, in which are pivoted the points F, which may be turned out at right angles with the axis of the spindle E, so that the end of the bagging may be caughtupon them and held while the said baggin gis being wound upon the spindle E.

The spindle E is tapered, so that the bagging wound upon it may be readily slipped off in a roll. To the journal at the larger end of the spindle E is attached a crank, G, for con venience in turning the said spindle.

H is a cylinder, the journals of which revolve in bearings in the upper part of the frame A, in such a position that the bagging must pass over the said cylinder H in passing from the roll 1) to the spindle E. The cylinder H is exactly a yard in circumference, and is provided with projecting points I to enter the bagging and prevent it from slipping. The

end of the cylinder-is marked off in quarter-ofa-yard spaces. v y

To one of thejournals of the cylinder H is attached a tooth. J, which, at each revolution of the .cylinder H, strikes a clickspring, K,

the number of yards unwound from the rollD- L is a wheel, which is provided with any desired number of teeth, and is pivoted to the frame A in such a position that its teeth may be struck by a tooth,M, formed upon or attached to the journal of the measuring-cylinder H, so that the wheel L may be turned through the space of one tooth at each revolution of the measuring-cylinder H. The teeth of the wheelL are numberech'and to the frame A is attached, or upon it is painted or other wise formed, a pointer, N, pointing to the teeth of the wheel L, to show the number of revolutions of the measuring-cyiinr r H, and consequently the number of yards of bagging that have passed over the said cylinder H.

In using the machine the rod G is passed through the center of the roll of bagging, and its ends are placed in the slots B. The end of the bagging is then brought into contact with the cylinderH at its zero-point,.and is carried over the said cylinder and placed upon the points F of the spindle E. The spindle E is then turned until the desired number of yards have been wound upon it. The bagging is then cut and the roll upon the spindle Eis tied. The spindle E and the bagging upon it I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 7 1. V In a measuring-machine, the spindle E, having the recesses F, and the points F, pivoted in said recesses and adapted to engage and hold the end of the bagging While it is being Wound upon the spindle, and to fall into said recesses of said spindle when the bagging is slipped therefrom, as shown and described.

2. The measuring-machine consisting of the frame A, having the inclined slots B, the roller (3, carrying the bagging D, the measuringwheel H, having theprojecting points I to E and detached therefrom, as shown and de- 20 scribed.

ORSON WEBSTER DODSON.

Witnesses CHARLES STEWART, H. H. HOLLAND. 

